Ernst Jünger biography

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Ernst Jnger

1895-1998

SOURCE: Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.

Year of Birth: 1895

Place of Birth: Heidelberg, Germany

Year of Death: 1998

Place of Death: Wilflingen, Germany

Genre(s): Essays, Novels, Travel/Exploration, Autobiography/Memoir, Politics/Government

One of modern Germany's foremost men of letters, Ernst Jnger is best known for hisIn Stahlgewittern:Aus dem Tagebuch eines Strosstruppfuehrers, translated as The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of aGerman Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front. He has also published highly acclaimed travel books,diaries, and essays. Speaking of the diversity of Jnger's accomplishment, Carl Steiner described Jnger in

theDictionary of Literary Biography as a "soldier-philosopher, a combination with which ancientcivilizations such as those of Greece and Rome were quite comfortable. . . . If one adds the categories of

naturalist, writer, and essayist, one moves into even more rarified circles. Ernst Jnger, blending the

courage of the soldier with the curiosity of the student of life forms, the skill and imagination of the literary

stylist with the probing intellect of the researcher, is such an exceptional individual." Jnger, who

continued to write well into his eighties and nineties, has created a body of work that reflects the longest

life span of any major German literary figure. Indeed, many critics have considered Jnger to be the doyen

of twentieth-century German letters.

As a young man, Jnger was fascinated by warfare and the military life. His longing to experience battle

first-hand asserted itself at the age of sixteen when he ran away from home to join the French Foreign

Legion. Jnger's father did not share his son's enthusiasm, however, and with the help of the authorities,

located and returned the underage boy to his home. But when World War I erupted, Jnger immediately

enlisted in the German Army. He distinguished himself on the Western Front, received Germany's highest

military honor, and was wounded seven times. From his World War I experiences came his first book, TheStorm of Steel, which was based on the diaries he kept at the time. The book was praised across the UnitedStates as a significant and revealing insight into the mind of a German officer.

In his introduction to The Storm of Steel, R. H. Mottram asserts that the work was profound and meaningfulbecause the author did not shy away from depicting events and feelings exactly as they occurred; he

censored nothing. Mottram's description of Jnger reveals much of the tone of the work: "He was no

middle-aged civilian, unwillingly taking up arms and finding all his worst preconceptions abundantly

fulfilled. He was nearly as good a specimen as ever worshipped Mars [the Roman god of war], and to what

did he come? To that unescapable doom that brings to meet violence precisely such resistance as shall

cancel and annul it." Mottram concludes that "on this point the strength and finality of the testimony cannot

be missed."

Jnger did not apologize in The Storm of Steelfor the bloodshed and violence of warfare, but rather reveledin the glories of battle. As he wrote in the book: "War means the destruction of the enemy without scruple

and by any means. War is the harshest of all trades, and the masters of it can only entertain humane feelings


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as long as they do no harm." A reviewer forNew Statesman declared: Jnger "has a remarkable gift fordescribing certain emotions, complex and hard of analysis, which beset, and still have power to bewilder,

the man of even average sensibility who was brought by war into abrupt contact with the most primitive of

human experiences."

In addition to recommending it to the general public, several reviewers considered The Storm of Steela

book imperative for pacifists to read and study. As F. Van de Water of theNew York Evening Postobserved, the book "presents a view of battle not generally recognized, yet too logical to be overlooked." Areviewer for Spectator also advised pacifists to heed "this fine book," commenting, "It is even betterpropaganda than [Erich M. Remarque's]All Quiet on the Western Front, for there is a certain horrible lurein the completeness of that work of genius, whereas this is a ghastly, gripping story whose truth and whose

horror stand out all the plainer for the author's psychic blindness."

After World War I, Jnger attended the University of Leipzig where he studied both philosophy and

zoology, becoming interested particularly in entomology, the study of insects. Hilary Barr, who translated

Jnger'sEine gefhrliche Begegnung asA Dangerous Encounter, told CA that "the [German] term 'SubtilerJagd,' which Jnger uses throughout his works, refers to his entomological excursions (primarily beetle-

chasing) as well as to his practice (more a second vocation) of observing close-up the wonders of the

animal and plant kingdoms. He is also a passionate collector and renowned entomologist (coleopterist)."

Numerous reviewers, in fact, attributed Jnger's probing and analytical approach in writing to his universitytraining in the sciences. It was while a student that he first became politically active and participated in

radical right-wing organizations that supported his view that a democracy of all the people could never

retain order in the world. Jnger looked forward to the rise of the new "Federation" and the coming of the

new man, an industrial individual who would restore order in a chaotic world. He defined and explained

these ideas in his 1932 work,Der Arbeiter: Herrschaft und Gestalt.

When Hitler came to power, Jnger dropped out of the political scene due to his disillusionment with the

Nazi Party. Although the Nazis were striving for totalitarianism, he felt that their interpretation was a

mockery of the "true system" he advocated. With this in mind, in 1939 he wroteAuf den Marmorklippen,an allegorical novel based on Nazi practices and later translated as On the Marble Cliffs. A major turningpoint in his literary career, this work offers a more humanistic and, some insist, almost Christian point of

view.

On the Marble Cliffs depicts the annihilation of a peaceful and gentle country by "barbarian hordes."Quickly recognized as anti-Nazi when released to English-speaking audiences, the book miraculously

escaped the censor's eye when published in Germany in 1939. By the time the German government realized

the novel's true meaning and halted further publication, tens of thousands of copies were already in

circulation. Jnger's honor was not seriously questioned, however, for he was loyally serving with the

German Army at the time.

Alfred Werner of theNew York Times praised the novel, but complained that "despite its poetical meritsand its unmistakable challenge to Hitlerism, [On the Marble Cliffs] fails to uplift the reader because of itsimpotent hopelessness." A reviewer for theNew Yorker claimed that Jnger's "allegory, which is full of thesame sort of hobgoblinism that the Nazis themselves went in for--skulls, torches, midnight revels, and so

on--is so murky that most readers are likely to miss the point."

As an appeal for humanist values, Jnger wroteDer Friede: Ein Wort an die Jugend Europas, und an dieJugend der Welt, translated as The Peace, in late 1941. Jnger began to draft the essay in the fall of 1941,when German arms were most successful. Working on in through the following winter, he kept it hidden in

a reinforced safe so that the Gestapo, who had him under continual surveillance, would not find it.

Dedicated to the memory of his son Ernstel, who was killed in action in 1944, the 1945 work is an

acknowledgement of Germany's guilt and a plea for world peace to end the senseless sacrifice of human

life. Although he still repudiated liberalism, Jnger called for a renunciation of nationalism and the

affirmation of the individual, and lobbied actively for a politically united Europe. Erik von Kuehnelt-


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Leddihn ofCatholic Worldobserved that The Peace "is not only a highly prophetic piece of writing in thefinest literary style . . . but it is also a blueprint for the sound peace which should have followed this terrible

massacre."

Jnger employed a fantastic and dream-like style of writing in his next book, Glaeserne Bienen, publishedin English translation as The Glass Bees. This allegorical novel tells of a former cavalryman, Captain

Richard, who must perform extensive feats of strength and endurance in the magical garden of politicaldictator Zapparoni in order to secure employment. The garden is filled with thousands of glass bees, tiny

mechanized robots able to lay waste to all civilization if summoned. According to E. S. Pisko of the

Christian Science Monitor, the glass bees symbolize "the destruction Jnger sees modern technologywreaking upon human society." Siegfried Mandel of theNew York Times Book Review commended thenovel as "harrowing and thought-disturbing," asserting that it "contributes not only to prophetic and

nihilistic literature but also to an understanding of the inner and outer forces that shape many a man's

attitude toward tyranny."

Jnger's third novel to be released in English translation wasAladins Problem, orAladdin's Problem.Reaching U.S. audiences in 1992, almost a decade after its publication in Germany, the metaphysical novel

follows thirty-seven-year-old Friedrich Baroh. Born in Poland into an aristocratic family and drafted into

the Polish army during World War II, Baroh rises in rank in the military, but ultimately deserts his post and

defects to the West. After the war he moves to Germany, and goes to work for his uncle, a mortician. Whileon a visit to the vast cemetery at Verdun, he becomes fascinated with the idea of constructing a giant

mausoleum in Turkey that he calls Terrestra, wherein could be housed all the world's dead. With the help of

a friend, Baroh puts his idea into practice, and soon find that "he has aroused a 'primal instinct,' a desire for

some sense of permanence amid the planet's endless upheavals," in the words ofNew York Times BookReview contributor Eils Lotozo. Unfortunately, as the novel progresses, Baroh's successful venture beginsto drive him to madness. The novel's title, "Aladdin's Problem," refers to the lamp which, although roughly

hewn and constructed from a simple substance, held the potential to control the world. Aladdin, as

possessor of this power, wields it without concern for the human consequences of his actions. In the

Washington Post Book World, contributor Thomas McGonigle praised Jnger's epigrammatic novel as aneffective vehicle for recalling the author's personal history and making readers "take with appropriate

seriousness his [nihilistic] observations about the modern world." And Lotozo concluded of the novel that

"Readers will be stirred by its persistent and intriguing questions about the conflicts between nature and

technology, the individual and the state, and by its examination of humanity's place in this wasteland of a

world that we are rapidly creating."

Taking place in Paris in 1888,A Dangerous Encounter--first published in German in 1985 asEinegefhrliche Begegnung--also finds aristocratic protagonists attempting to grapple with an increasinglymechanized world. Captain Kargane, an officer in the Germany navy, is married to an unfaithful wife;

Ducasse is a wealthy decadent, reduced by the "soulless age of steam and light" in which he lives "to being

a mischievous arbiter of elegance at the doubtful tables of rich strangers," according toNew York Review ofBooks contributor Ian Buruma. Arranging a tryst between Kargane's wife and a young German student,Ducasse inadvertently brings about the woman's murder. The event forces a duel between Kargane and the

student's second, an old soldier, that restores the sense of traditional honor of both men.

Jnger's 1977 novelEumeswilwas translated into English in 1993 and received good reviews from

American critics. Eumeswil is a land controlled by the dictator Condor on the shores of north Africa in adystopic time following the collapse of a world government in the third millennium. The story is narrated

by Martin Venator, a history professor who claims to have no political allegiance, and who moonlights as a

servant to the dictator. Venator, who in his spare time revisits historical events via his time machine, takes

copious notes regarding Eumeswil's history as it has valiantly struggled to save itself from the doom of

democracy. Eventually, an overthrow of Condor's regime becomes imminent, and Venator escapes with

Condor and his allies into the woods, leaving his journals behind as a legacy. Jack Byrne of theReview ofContemporary Fiction wrote that Jnger's "style is overpowering with literary, philosophical, and historicalreferences," which makeEumeswil"a veritable handbook on political power, dictatorship, and theinevitable corruption that follows in their wake." A critic for Publishers Weekly called the book a


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"labyrinthine study of a compromised individual [which] telescopes past and present, playing over the

sweep of Western history and culture with a dazzling range of allusions from Homer and Nero to Poe and

Lenin."

Reviewing particularly Jnger's later works of fiction, Philip Brantingham noted in Chicago's TribuneBooks that the philosopher-novelist's "beautifully written and challenging works as a whole provoke much

rethinking on subjects often thought to be closed and settled. Aside from his literary artistry, that is perhapsthe greatest heritage Jnger will leave us." But in his later years, Jnger gained a semblance of a different

kind of notoriety after discussing his extensive drug experimentation--including the use of LSD with the

drug's inventor, Albert Hofmann--in his bookAnnaeherungen: Drogen und Rausch. Nevertheless, keypolitical figures continued to recognize his importance in German letters. He appeared publicly with

German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and French President Franois Mitterand in 1984 in a ceremony to

commemorate casualties of both world wars, and both leaders visited him at his home in Wilflingen on the

occasion of his ninetieth birthday in 1985. When Jnger died at the age of 102 in 1998, he was eulogized in

theEconomistby a contributor who noted that "writers of obituaries in German newspapers have agonisedin their efforts to be honest about Mr Junger. Some have looked at his long life covering the blackest period

of German history . . . and note that he never lost his contempt for democracy." TheEconomistwriterconcluded that "others say he was simply a patriotic German trying to make the best of the times. The

important thing, say his defenders, is that he was one of the finest writers of the century, a great stylist, a

master of German, and don't writers make their own rules?"

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

BOOKS

Arnold, Heinz Ludwig, editor, Wandlung und Wiederkehr: Festschrift zum 70. GeburtstagErnstJuenger, Georgi (Aachen, Germany), 1965.

Arnold, Heinz Ludwig,ErnstJuenger, Steglitz (Berlin, Germany), 1966. Baumer, Franz,ErnstJuenger, Colloquium (Berlin, Germany), 1967. Bohrer, Karl Heinz,Die Asthetik des Schreckens: Die pessimistische Romantik und Ernst Juengers

Frhwerk, Hanser (Munich. Germany), 1978.

Brock, Erich,ErnstJuenger und die Problematik der Gegenwart, Schwabe (Basel, Switzerland),1943.

Contemporary Literary Criticism, Volume 125, Gale (Detroit, MI), 2000. Decombis, Marcel,ErnstJuenger: L'homme et l'oeuvre jusqu'en 1936, Aubier (Paris, France),

1943.

Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 56: German Fiction Writers, 1914-1945, Gale (Detroit,MI), 1987.

Figal, Gunter, and Heimo Schwilk,Magie der Heiterkeit: Ernst Junger zum Hundersten, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1995.

Hietala, Marjatta,Der neue Nationalismus in der Publizistik Ernst Juengers und des Kreises umihn 1920-1933, Suomalaison Tiedeakatemian Toimituksia (Helsinki, Finland), 1975.

Jnger, Ernst, The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on theWestern Front, translation by Basil Creighton, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1929.

Katzmann, Volker,Ernst Juengers magischer Realismus, Olms (Hildesheim), 1975. Kerker, Arnim,ErnstJuenger--Klaus Mann: Gemeinsamkeit und Gegensatz in Literatur und

Politik, Bouvier (Bonn, Germany), 1974. Kiesel, Helmuth, Wissenschaftliche Diagnose und dichterische Vision der Moderne: Max Weber

und Ernst Junger, Manutius (Heidelberg, Germany), 1994.

Konitzer, Martin,Ernst Junger, Campus, 1993. Konrad, Helmut, Kosmos: Politische Philosophie im Werk Ernst Juengers, Blasaditsch (Vienna,

Austria), 1972.


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Kunicki, Wojciech, Projektionen des Geschichtlichen, P. Lang, 1993. Loose, Gerhard,ErnstJuenger, Twayne (New York, NY), 1974. Martin, Alfred von,Der heroische Nihilismus und seine Uberwindung: Ernst Juengers Weg durch

die Krise, Scherpe (Krefeld), 1948. Mohler, Arnim, editor,Die Schleife: Dokumente zum Weg vonErnstJuenger, Arche (Zurich,

Switzerland), 1955.

Muehleisen, H., and H. P. des Coudres,Bibliographie der Werke Ernst Juengers, Klett-Cotta(Stuttgart, Germany), 1985.

Mueller-Schwefe, Hans-Rudolf,ErnstJuenger, Barmen (Wuppertal), 1951. Muller, Hans-Harald, and Harro Segeberg,Ernst Junger im 20. Jahrhundert, Wilhelm Fink

(Munich, Germany), 1995.

Nebel, Gerhard,ErnstJuenger und das Schicksal des Menschen, Marees (Wuppertal), 1948. Paetel, Karl O.,ErnstJuenger: Eine Bibliographie, Lutz & Meyer, 1953. Paetel, Karl O.,ErnstJuenger in Selbstzeugnissen und Bilddokumenten, Rowohlt (Hamburg,

Germany), 1962.

Sader, Jorg,Im Bauche des Leviathan: Tagebuch und Maskerade, Anmerkungen zu Ernst Jungers"Strahlungen," Konigshausen & Neumann (Wurzburg), 1996.

Schieb, Roswitha,Das teilbare Individuum: Korperbilder bei Ernst Junger, Hans Henny Jahnn,und Peter Weiss, M. & P. (Stuttgart, Germany), 1997.

Schroter, Olaf,Es ist am Technischen viel Illusion: Die Technik im Werk Ernst Jungers, Koster(Berlin, Germany), 1993.

Schwartz, Hans Peter,Der konservative Anarchist: Politik und Zeitkritik Ernst Juengers,Rombach (Freiburg, Germany), 1962.

Stern, Joseph Peter,ErnstJuenger: A Writer of Our Time, Yale University Press (New Haven,CT), 1953.

Treher, Wolfgang, Transzendenz und Katastrophe: Ernst Junger im Spiegel der HegelschenPhilosophie; Eine psychopathologische Studie, Oknos (Emmendingen-Maleck), 1993.

Woods, Roger,ErnstJuenger and the Nature of Political Commitment, Heinz (Stuttgart,Germany), 1982.

PERIODICALS

Art in America, June, 1995, Brigitte Werneburg and Christopher Phillips, "The Armored MaleExposed, " pp. 44-47.

Atlantic, May, 1961. Bloomsbury Review, March, 1994, p. 4. Booklist, April 1, 1994, John Shreffler, review ofEumeswil, pp. 1423-1424. Catholic World, November, 1948, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn, review ofThe Peace. Chicago Tribune, May 1, 1994, Thomas McGonigle, "Deadly Details and Rules for Living, " p. 6. Christian Science Monitor, March 2, 1961, E. S. Pisko, review ofThe Glass Bees. Journal of European Studies, March, 1999, Thomas Pekar, "Ernst Junger's Thematic Use of the

Orient and Asia, " p. 27.

Library Journal, April 1, 1994, Michael T. O'Pecko, review ofEumeswil, p. 132. Nation, March 27, 1948, Louis Clair, review ofOn the Marble Cliffs, pp. 357-358. New Statesman, August 17, 1929. New Yorker, March 20, 1948, review ofOn the Marble Cliffs. New York Evening Post, September 28, 1929, F. Van de Water, review ofThe Storm of Steel:

From the Diary of a German Storm-Troop Officer on the Western Front.

New York Review of Books, June 24, 1993, Ian Buruma, review ofA Dangerous Encounter, pp.27-30.

New York Times, April 4, 1978, Alfred Werner, review ofOn the Marble Cliffs.


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New York Times Book Review, February 19, 1961; November 22, 1992, Eils Lotozo, "A BoomingNecropolis, " p. 24.

Observer, December 5, 1993, p. 23. Publishers Weekly, June 21, 1993, p. 85; May 9, 1994, review ofEumeswil, p. 64; March 25,

1996, review ofAladdin's Problem, p. 80. Review of Contemporary Fiction, fall, 1994, Jack Byrne, review ofEumeswil, p. 230. Spectator, June 22, 1929, review ofThe Storm of Steel. Texas Studies in Literature and Language, winter, 1965. Tribune Books (Chicago), August 1, 1993, p. 4. Washington Post Book World, February 7, 1993, Thomas McGonigle, review ofAladdin's

Problem, p. 11. Yale Review, June, 1961.

OTHER

ErnstJuenger in Cyberspace, http://www.juenger.org/ (August 24, 2001). Scorpion Magazine Web site, http://www.stormloader.com/thescorpion/ (October 31, 2001).

Obituary and Other Sources:

PERIODICALS

Economist, February 28, 1998, p. 89. New York Times, February 18, 1998, David Binder, "Ernst Junger, Contradictory German Author

Who Wrote about War, Is Dead at 102," p. D22.*

Source:Contemporary Authors Online, Gale, 2002.

Source Database: Contemporary Authors

WRITINGS BY THE AUTHOR:

IN ENGLISH TRANSLATION

In Stahlgewittern: Aus dem Tagebuch eines Strosstruppfhrers, E. S. Mittler (Berlin, Germany),1922, published asIn Stahlgewittern: Ein Kriegstagbuch, [Hamburg, Germany], 1934, translationby Basil Creighton published as The Storm of Steel: From the Diary of a German Storm-TroopOfficer on the Western Front, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1929.

Das Wldchen 125: Eine Chronik aus den Grabenkaempfen 1918, E. S. Mittler (Berlin,Germany), 1925, translation by Basil Creighton published as Copse One Hundred Twenty-five: AChronicle from the Trench Warfare of 1918, Chatto & Windus (London, England), 1930.

Afrikanische Spiele, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt (Hamburg, Germany), 1936, translation by StuartHood published asAfrican Diversions, Lehmann (London, England), 1954.

Auf den Marmorklippen (novel), Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt (Hamburg, Gemany), 1939,translation by Stuart Hood published as On the Marble Cliffs, New Directions (New York, NY),1947.


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Der Friede: Ein Wort an die Jugend Europas, und an die Jugend der Welt(essay), HanseatischeVerlagsanstalt (Hamburg, Germany), 1945, translation by Stuart Hood published as The Peace,Regnery (Hinsdale, IL), 1948.

Glaeserne Bienen (novel), E. Klett, 1957, translation by Louise Bogan and Elizabeth Mayerpublished as The Glass Bees, Noonday Press (New York, NY), 1960.

Eumeswil, E. Klett, 1977, translation by Joachim Neugroschel, Marsilio (New York, NY), 1993. Aladins Problem (novel), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1983, translation by JoachimNeugroschel published asAladdin's Problem, Marsilio (New York, NY), 1992. Eine gefhrliche Begegnung (novel), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1985, translation by Hilary

Barr published asA Dangerous Encounter, Marsilio (New York, NY), 1993.

IN GERMAN; HISTORY

Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis (title means "Struggle as Inner Experience"), E. S. Mittler (Berlin,Germany), 1922.

Feuer und Blut: Ein kleiner Ausschnitt aus einer grossen Schlacht, Stahlhelm, 1925, fifth edition,Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt (Hamburg, Germany), 1941.

Grten und Strassen: Aus den Tagebchern von 1939 und 1940 (autobiography), E. S. Mittler(Berlin, Germany), 1942.

(With Armin Mohler)Die Schleife: Dokumente zum Weg, Arche (Zurich, Switzerland), 1955. Jahre der Okkupation (title means "Years of Occupation"), E. Klett, 1958.

IN GERMAN; TRAVEL

Dalmatinischer Aufenthalt, 1934. Atlantische Fahrt, Kriegsgefangenenhilfe des Weltbundes der YMCA in England (London,

England), 1947.

Ein Inselfrhling: Ein Tagebuch aus Rhodes, Arche (Zurich, Switzerland), 1948. Aus der goldenen Muschel, 1948. Am Kieselstrand, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1951. Am Sarazenenturm, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1955. Serpentara, 1957. San Pietro, 1957. Zwei Inseln: Formosa, Ceylon, Olten, 1968.

IN GERMAN; ESSAYS

Der Arbeiter: Herrschaft und Gestalt(title means "The Worker"), Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt(Hamburg, Germany), 1932.

Bltter und Steine (title means "Leaves and Stones"), Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt (Hamburg,Germany), 1934.

Geheimnisse der Sprache: Zwei Essays, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt (Hamburg, Germany), 1939. ber die Linie (title means "Across the Line"), V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany),

1950.

Der Waldgang, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1951. Der gordische Knoten, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1953. Das Sanduhrubuch, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1954. An der Zeitmauer (title means "At the Time Barrier"), E. Klett, 1959. Der Weltstaat: Organismus und Organisation, E. Klett, 1960. Essays, E. Klett, 1960. Sgraffiti, E. Klett, 1960.


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Typus, Name, Gestalt, E. Klett, 1963. Grenzgnge, Olten, 1965. Grenzgnge: Essays, Reden, Traeume, E. Klett, 1966. Zahlen und Gtter, Philemon und Baucis: Zwei Essays, E. Klett, 1974. (With Wolf Jobst Sieder)Bume: Gedichte und Bilder, Propylaeen, 1976.

IN GERMAN; EDITOR

Die Unvergessenen, W. Andermann, 1928. Der Kampf um das Reich (title means "The Struggle for the Empire"), Rhein & Ruhr, c. 1929. Das anlitz des Weltkrieges, Neufeld & Henius, 1930. Franz Schauwecker,Der feurige Weg, Frundsberg, 1930. Krieg und Krieger, Junker & Dnnhaupt, 1930. Antoine Rivarol,Rivarol, V. Klostermann (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1956.

IN GERMAN; OTHER

Das abenteuerliche Herz: Aufzeichnungen bei Tag und Nacht, Frundsberg, 1929, second editionpublished asDas abenteuerliche Herz: Figuren und Capriccios, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt(Hamburg, Germany), 1938.

Luftfahrt ist not!, W. Andermann, 1930. Sprache und Krperbau, Arche (Zurich, Switzerland), 1947. Heliopolis: Rckblick auf eine Stadt(novel), Heliopolis, 1949. Strahlungen (personal narrative; title means "Radiations"), Heliopolis, 1949. Besuch auf Godenholm (short stories; title means "Visit in Godenholm"), V. Klostermann

(Frankfurt am Main, Germany), 1952.

Capriccios: Eine Auswahl, Reclam, 1953. Erzhlende Schriften, E. Klett, 1960. Werke, ten volumes, E. Klett, 1960. (Compiler, with Klaus Ulrich Leistikow)Mantrana: Ein Spiel, E. Klett, 1964. Subtile Jagden (memoirs; title means "The Subtle Chase"), E. Klett, 1967. Ad hoc, E. Klett, 1970. Annaeherungen: Drogen und Rausch, E. Klett, 1970. Sinn und Bedeutung: Ein Figurenspiel, E. Klett, 1971. Die Zwille (semi-autobiographical; title means "The Slingshot"), E. Klett, 1973. Ausgewhlte Erzaehlungen, E. Klett, 1975. (With Alfred Kubin)Eine Begegnung (letters), Propylaeen, 1975. Collected Works, eighteen volumes, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1978-83. Siebzig verweht, two volumes, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1980-81. Autor und Autorschaft(title means "Author and Authorship"), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany),

1984.

Zwei Mal Halley (title means "Halley Revisited"), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1987. Zeitsprnge (title means "Time-Fissures"), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1990. Die Schere (title means "The Shears"), Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1990. Siebzig verweht III, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1993. Ernst Junger, Rudolf Schlichter: Briefe 1935-1955, edited and with commentary by Dirk

Heisserer, Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1997.

Briefe 1930-1983: Ernst Junger, Carl Schmitt, edited and with commentary by Helmuth Kiesel,Klett-Cotta (Stuttgart, Germany), 1999.


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Coeditor ofStandarte, Arminius, Widerstand, Der Vormarsch, andDie Kommenden magazines, late 1920s-early 1930s. Coeditor and cofounder,Antaios: Zeitschrift fuer eine freie Welt, 1959. Some of Juenger'swork has appeared in French and Swiss editions.

Media Adaptations:

Edgardo Cozarinsky's film One Man's War is based on Juenger's Parisian diaries; in 1995 Johan Kresnik

and Hans Haacke created a dance production called "Ernst Junger," based on the author's life and works.

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